Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-03
GENERAL NEWS.

! A Theater to cost 81, zoo, Geo, and TO be con-
| Quoted by John StetsOn, Is to be erected IN
/ the vicinity of the Hoffman house, New
! York.
A convention in the interest of the
| improvement of western waterways has
! been called 70 meet at Memphis October 20.
/ A number of German Catholic priests in
the northwest have been interviewed regard
/ ing the approaching convention of German
| Catholics in Chicago. They deny that its
! purpose is hostile TO the Irish element in the
l church or that there Is any 1mOslty existing
] between the German and Irish Catholics as
/ classes
/ In their weekly trade review r. g. Dun &
I Co. say that everything now turns on crop
/ prospects. The damage to corn has been
| Overestimated, although the yield viii be
l below thst of last year The wheat crop
viii, it is thought, reach 43J,OOOOOO bushels
| The cotton crop viii be below the early
| estimates, and other important crops viii be
/ short. The movement of merchandise is al
| ready somewhat restricted by the un-
! certainty as to the crops. The monetary
situation, though not without unfavOrC BILE
! features, on the whole satisfactory. During
/ the past seven days there were l6l business
| failures in the United S ates and Canada.
The state railroad and warehouse commits
/ siOners have summoned the railroad compa-
MES to show cause why freight rates IN ILL
nOis should not be reduced to correspond
with the interstate schedules. The hearing
/ is set for September LIST, when shippers and
/ freight bureaus viii also be given an Oppor-
| tuniUy to show cause why a reduction should
be made
Emperor William is seriously i'll.
A San Francisco dispatch says AIackay
and Flood lost IS 600, 900 in the recent disas-|
trous wheat deal in that city.
Henry George was nominated for secre-
/ tary of state by his convention at Syracuse.
on the Clarendon hail platform" on which
he II #
| The socialists of the metropolis are passing
resolutions d6nOuncing the exclusion of
| their delegates from the convention, and
held. ''0--'' '--'-- ." - ~ '--'
Peru is in the agonies of a cabinet crisis.
Two men, named Harrison and Graham.
became involved IN quarrel in the
ChickasaW nation, on Friday, which resulted
in the fatal shooting of each and a son of
Harrison. The trouble arose over the latter's
/ refusal TO consent 70 Graham's marriage
with his daughter
The civil-serylce commissioners are still
unable to come TO an agreement regarding
the charges preferred by the Chicago Civil
Service Reform league against the admistra-
ton of the custOm-hou=e and postotice in
this city. Commissioner EdgertOns's report
contains an onslaught upon cIVll-serYice re
form organizations, TO which is colleagues /
decline to atiX their names. There viii pro
badly be three reports on the subject.
G. R. Hodge, alias W. H. Carroll
notorious confidence men and fOrger, who
recently escaped from the Columbus peniteu-
tiary, has been captured in Chicago.
The eat phosphate industry of South
Carolina is in "A demoralized condition. An
attempt is making to form a combination of
the various companies for the purpose of /
building prices.
The death of Herr Nordmann, a leading
Vienna journalist, is announced.
Two Russian families have been expelled
from Berlin by the imperial government.
DR.. Edward W Germer, a physician of
national reputation, died al his home in Erie. |
Pennsylvania.
The steam-barge Whitney and theschoon c
Ashland, loaded with iron ore, are ashore /
near Port Hope, NJ achlgan.
A Santa Fe passenger train was wrecked
fOrty-seven miles north of Temple, Texas,
and three tralnmen dangerously scalded.
Manitoba crop prospects are first-class.
At Souris. Prince Edward Island. the chief
officer of the Dominion cruiser Nigilaut.
fell in with several hundred American sailors /
who were carOusiug on shore. The Yankees. /
whose vessels had sought shelter in the har-
Dor from storm, are said to have drugged
the officer, and while he was helpless to have
torn of his buttons and bands, and otherwise
Inaltreated him. The Nlgllant has been re-
placed at SOuris by the cruiser Critic.
Among the matters to be considered at the /
forthcoming convention of the American
Bankers association at Pittsburgh are the
silver question, the uniformity of bank
checks as proposed by the Chicago Bankers
club, the use of safety paper for all checks |
drafts, etc, plans for securing bank circula- |
ton otherwise than by deposits of govern /
ment bonds, measures for the better prO- l
lection of depOsltOrs IN national banks. and I
memorial to congress urging an amend |
ment to the Canadian treaty providing for
the eGtradltlOn of defaulters and embez-
zlers.
Petrified human remains have been found |
IN an excavation at Walnut Hill. Cincinnati. |
high.
The ameer of Afghanistan, who has just |
had foot amputated. owing TO gangreue, |
has been given up to die.
Sir John Macdonald, the Dominion pre-
mler. maintains a firm attitude touching /
his railway troubles in Manitoba. In a con |
Versat1On with a leading conservative of that i
province, he declared that the construction |
of the Red River Valley railroad would be /
stopped if it had to be done by British regu- i
lars The lmperiel government has, he says, |
decided TO establish permanent garrison /
az Winnipeg. Premier NOrquay, of y auitO- /
ha, says the people OF that province viii re /
sist TO the bitter end any attempt by the OF /
tawa government TO defeat the Red River /
valley project. Another Injunction has been /
applied for IN the interest of the Canadian \
Pacific. If il is granted, a special session of 4
the provincial parliament viii probably be 4
summoned Popular feeling runs high, and
the annexation sentiment Is growing.
The -four output at Minneapolis last week /
was 40, 40 barrels, Nineteen mills are now /
in operation, most of them by steam power. (
as the water power Is IN a state of collapse. /
Miss Sarah H. Dodge. charged with the
murder of Col. BabeOck at Gardner, H., /
waived examination, and was admitted to i
bail IN $4,000. The matter viii come up be-
fore the Grundy county jury, which meets al /
Morris on September 9th.